Spasmo (1974)

Review by Tor

“Spasmo” starts on a sight-seeing trip through the luxuriant Tuscan coast. Christian Bauman and a female friend stumble upon a mysterious woman named Barbara who has passed out on a beach. Barbara vanishes quickly, but not before bewitching Christian and leaving behind an embossed thermos that he uses to track her to her rich beau’s yacht. Upon reuniting, Christian and Barbara retreat to a nearby motel where she explains that he must shave in order for the evening to progress any further. And as luck would have it Barbara keeps an electric razor on her for just such occasions.

As he is shaving, Christian is accosted by a hitman but manages to wrestle the gun away and shoot him. Barbara convinces him that they should flee but her rich beau shows up unexpectedly and whisks them both off for a warning and a scotch. When he realizes that he left his gold chain behind Christian rushes back to the motel. He arrives to find that the hitman’s body is missing. Barbara catches up with him and the two decide to hide out at her friend’s castello on the coast.

At the castle, they encounter a May/ December couple and attempt to tell their story. Soon enough the dead hitman reappears, Barbara disappears, Christian discovers that he knows the woman in the couple and decides to force sex upon her. Christian’s fragile psyche fractures, he kills the hitman, and follows a trail of dead bodies back to his brother Fritz, who is now running the family plastics business. The two meet for a final confrontation that lays bare all of the brothers’ skeletons.

From: http://www.bloodygoodhorror.com/bgh/reviews/10/01/2009/spasmo